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Contextual Related Posts

Contextual Related Posts

Related posts for your WordPress site with inbuilt caching. Supports blocks, shortcodes, widgets and custom post types!
Rating:
4.8
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Active Installations:
70000+
Last Updated:
Jan 28, 2025
WordPress Version:
6.3 or higher
Tested up to:
6.7.2

Increase Site Engagement

Display a list of related posts that are relevant and interesting to your readers, keeping them on your site longer.

Customize Related Posts

Choose between different styles, layouts, thumbnails, excerpts, and more to customize the look and feel of the related posts list.

Boost Site Traffic

Easily boost your site's traffic by showing visitors more of your awesome content and reducing bounce rates.

Improve Performance

Automatically cache related posts output, reducing the load on your server and improving performance as visitors browse through your site.

3.6.2

  • Bug fixes:
    • Fixed upgrade link in WordPress multisite.
    • Fix type casting for row height calculation in thumbs_grid style in Styles Handler class.
    • Updated Freemius SDK to v2.11.0.

3.6.1

  • Bug fix: Corrected thumbnail images to return the specified image size instead of the full size.

3.6.0

Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/contextual-related-posts-v3-6-0/

  • Features:

    • [Pro] New block: Contextual Related Posts Featured Image is an advanced featured image block that falls back to the first image, meta key, or a default image if no featured image is set.
    • [Pro] Related Posts block now includes:
      • Buttons to save and clear default block settings.
      • Auto-insertion of default and global settings attributes, with an option to disable this in the List tuning tab.
  • Modifications:

    • The “Manual related posts” field in the meta box can now be customized to perform searches without relevance. To disable relevance in searches, use the filter crp_meta_box_manual_related_relevance with the following code: add_filter('crp_meta_box_manual_related_relevance', '__return_false');.
    • Contextual Related Posts Block’s Other attributes moved to Advanced panel.
    • Show admin notices when the Style is set to “Rounded Thumbnails”, “Rounded Thumbnails with Grid”, or “Text Only” in the Settings page. A notice will appear below the affected settings, indicating that these options cannot be modified.
    • Updated “Rounded Thumbnails” style’s post title line height to 1.1em and removed the padding.
    • Updated Freemius SDK to 2.10.1.
  • Bug fixes:

    • Fixed warning message about language files being initiated too early.

3.5.5

  • Modifications:
    • Updated Freemius SDK to 2.9.0

3.5.4

Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/contextual-related-posts-v3-5-0/

  • Fixes:
    • include_post_ids and manual_related were not being passed correctly to the query

3.5.3

  • Modifications:

    • Updated Freemius SDK to 2.7.3
    • Updated Contextual Related Posts block apiVersion to 3
    • Increase background opacity for the Rounded Thumbs style’s post title for better readability
  • Fixes:

    • Allow manual_related attribute in shortcode
    • Correctly handle manual_related and include_post_ids arguments when set to 0. Ensure manual_related is set to an empty array when 0 is passed.
    • Correctly check if relation attribute is set for meta_query and tax_query
    • Fixed links to settings and tools page in the admin area
    • Pass post_status when using get_posts()
    • Remove the_posts filter in CRP_Query
    • [Pro] Fixed bug in the Query Loop where custom post types didn’t appear in the dropdown

3.5.2

  • Modifications:

    • [Pro] If “Only from” same category/tag/taxonomy is enabled, the plugin will sort results by the number of matched taxonomies first, then optimize the related posts further. The free version will continue to sort by date
    • [Pro] If any of the weights are 0, then the algorithm will not consider that field for matching
  • Bug fix:

    • Custom styles did not get enqueued on the front end
    • Fixed PHP error on the Network admin page
    • Fixed bug where post types and taxonomies settings retained the previous values if no option was selected

3.5.1

  • Bug fix:
    • Fixed memory issue when using the crp shortcode

3.5.0

Complete code rewrite using OOP, namespacing and autoloading. This will make it easier to maintain and extend the plugin in the future.

  • Features:

    • Enter a negative number in the “Insert after paragraph number” setting to insert the related posts from the bottom of the post
    • [Pro] New Related Posts Query Block that allows you to query related posts using a block in the block or site editor
    • [Pro] New feature to set the weight of the title, content and excerpt in the related posts algorithm
    • [Pro] New parameter display_only_on_tax_ids to display related posts only on specific taxonomy terms
    • [Pro] New option added to the Edit Post meta box mapped to include_cat_ids to include related posts from specific categories only
    • [Pro] New Clear cache button in the settings page to clear the cache
  • Enhancements:

    • The plugin supports WP_Query directly if crp_query is set in the query arguments
    • Optimized media handler to reduce the number of queries
    • Cache posts only setting is changed to be true by default
    • Cache HTML output will now cache the HTML output of the related posts list, superseding the Cache posts only setting
  • Bug fix:

    • trim_char function returned a blank string instead of the original string if the length was 0
    • Insert after paragraph used to insert after an extra paragraph than what was specified

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the separate changelog.txt file or the releases page on Github.

Useful plugin, helpful author

By Mew (GokuMew2) on February 22, 2025

Very useful plugin with a lot of settings to customize, and the author is helpful if you have any issues. Thank you!

Fine Plugin

By wittydee on February 9, 2025

Works very well and support is quick and spot on. Thanks for this!

Highly configurable, great matches

By kelson (Kelson) on December 16, 2024

Runs locally on your server instead of calling out to a cloud service. Highly configurable, privacy-friendly, can show thumbnails or just titles, can cache results or calculate them on the fly. Comparable to YARPP, which is also good, but this one comes up with better results on my site.

Fantastic Support

By idrawfashion on September 3, 2024

As a non-tech-savvy person, I was unable to set up the plugin as I needed, so I quickly uninstalled it. Minutes later, Ajay reached out to me with a warm, personal email offering assistance to get the plugin working for me.

With just a couple of custom code lines, the related posts on my blog now look exactly as I imagined. I couldn’t be happier with the professional and warm support from the plugin author.

Thank you, and keep creating amazing products!

Superb

By lindyncl on August 9, 2024

I was using a different plug in and it stopped working/indexing my blog posts. I raised a support ticket but after five days no reply so I started looking around for a replacement. I tried two other plug ins before this one and once I figured out how to use some css to centralise it it looks exactly the same as the old plugin did. When I looked at my Google Analytics my page views have shot up, basically because this plug in doesn't just show "hey here are more posts on my blog..." it shows contextualised related posts so more of what that visitor was looking at in the first place. My page views have shot up. I'm glad the previous plug in stopped working or I would never have found this one.

best related posts plugin

By sinanisler on July 29, 2024

best related posts plugin O_O

Excellent Support with recent upgrade issue

By quidprocrow on July 28, 2024

I noticed that, with the most recent upgrade, my manual related posts were not working correctly. I contacted support on the WP site and received a quick response from Ajay. After a few back and forth questions and answers, he realized that there was a bug and fixed it the next day. On a weekend no less! A+++

Great plugin

By Ronald Huereca (ronalfy) on June 12, 2024

Great plugin. Yours is the best related posts plugin I've found, and I've tried a lot.

If I could request one feature, perhaps in the pro version, the ability to show only related posts within the same post type.

Super Support

By DAMIANOS on June 10, 2024

The latest version of the plugin is super fast with no memory consumption. Highly recommended.

This plugins is awesome

By remiCs (emersong20) on June 4, 2024

The plugin works very well, the support is fantastic and it does what it claims to do. Amazing plugin.

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